Recovering...

...from a whirlwind week of record breaking. The UK launch went very well, but it really took it out of me.

Most of our record breakers arrived on Monday. Cathie and Walt Jung from North Carolina flew in early morning - normally we try and meet our visitors as they arrive, but it was REALLY early so we couldn't get there.

Next in was Kenneth Lee, who was very cool. He looked like a smaller version of Wesley Snipes in Blade, but wasn't a vampire. He was a fun guy, though very calm as you would expect from a samurai. Finally, we had Narve Laeret and his wife Marianne from Norway. He is an extremely well built man, looking every inch ex-special forces, but in person he's a big teddy bear

At one point when Narve and Ken were walking down the street, we can up with an idea of them in a sketch show as a pair of superheroes. As they were both dressed for their martial arts, Ken became Slasher (as he has his samurai sword) and Narve's alter ego was Smasher.

Tuesday night, we met for dinner with holders in Bertorelli's on Charlotte Street in London. We enjoyed a quiet Italian meal. Thankfully we were not as noticeable as these dinners tend to be as from the just looking at them, they aren't as noticeable as our other record breakers. We all chatted and these very different personalities all seem to have got on quite well.

Wednesday was our busiest day so far. We teamed up with TNR to shoot a promotional PR video to go out to the media, featuring our new friends. We filmed them turning up in Victoria railway station from the Gatwick Express, carrying a suitcase. In the middle of rush hour, we surprised everyone with Leslie, opening the suitcase from inside. In our 'story', I take them all sightseeing, going down to Tower Bridge, where Ken did some samurai apple chopping. He was going to split on that was standing on my head, but I was told that we didn't have the insurance (rats!). We took Leslie and Cathie over Westminster Bridge and to Parliament and then we were all on to Buckingham Palace. There the police were called because of Ken's weapon - not for the first time as we had talked to some other officers at Victoria as well.

Thursday was mainly spent checking the news wires for our pictures and other PR stories, as well as the day-to-day tasks such as working on the video games book. It was a real success with big coverage in all forms of media and with more interviews on Friday. It was especially good to be in the morning Metro paper - a record holder in itself!

Later that evening we had a final dinner with all the holders that were helping us with the launch. Kenneth was tired so had an early night, but were joined by Elaine Davidson, the most pierced woman in the world, who was doing a couple of spots with us the following morning. Our venue was Zilli Fish, owned by famous chef Aldo Zilli, who himself used to hold the record for the Highest pancake toss. Again, it was a very enjoyable evening, and Elaine's body art drew some interesting glances.

I was doing my first radio interview at 4.30 on Friday and spent most of the day at 'Heavy' in Wardour Street, talking to all those radio programmes that had helped Scott Christie and I do the most radio interviews in 24 hours. We let them know that they'd made it in the book and had one every ten minutes! Thankfully Stuart Claxton was there to help me, as there were TV interviews and other broadcast slots throughout the day, including Channel 4 Lunchtime News, Channel 5 news and a live interview on Sky News. It's always quite weird doing these things, as it's just you, a camera and a disembodied voice in the room.

I emerged, blinking, from my last interview around 4.30pm, just in time to help set up for a celebration of a good job done. I was half asleep, but it's amazing what a couple of libations and a spell on Guitar Hero can do for the spirits!!